Create Yourself A 400 Watt Rubbermaid Grow

How to Create a 400 Watt HID Rubbermaid Grow
by, gman





You Will need:

Three Rubbermaid bins
Three higher velocity fans
One lower velocity fan
A sharp razor or knife
Mylar, or flat white paint



Step one: Place one Rubbermaid bin right side up take cover of and put to side








Step two: remove the cover of a second Rubbermaid bin and place face down over the first Rubbermaid bin








Step Three: Cut a hole in the bottom of the top box









Step Four: put last Rubbermaid right side up with cover on top cut hole in bottom of Rubbermaid bin first









Step Five: Cut a hole in the second bin up on the side for one high powered fan



Step six: Cut directly opposite for the second high powered fan
both will be pumping air in










Step Seven: Cut a hole on the side of the top box so that the third and final high powered fan will fit blowing air out



Step eight: Cut a hole on the side of the bottom box so that the low powered fan will fit and blow on your plants nicely











Step nine: Affix hood and bulb so that it can hang from the cover of the top box










Step ten: put mylar all over the inside, if Mylar is not an option use flat white paint


Step Eleven: put them plants in there and let em grow



To access the plants simply take the top bin off the top,
to get all the way to the plants take the middle and top off


Anyway here of some pics of it and its results

temps run 75- 79

bump bump /

cmon thats got to be pretty interesting to be putting a 400 watt hid in a rubbermaid and keeping temps normal

this looks awesome especially considering that ur able to keep the temps so low... what are the ambient temps in the room?? you may want to consider switching your fans so that u have more exhaust than intake... this way you can have negative pressure inside the boxes and you could effectively use a carbon scrubber if you wanted to.. either way awesome setup

growman at wot rate did they grow? intresting wot ur doing will keep in tuch

thecloset said:

this looks awesome especially considering that ur able to keep the temps so low... what are the ambient temps in the room?? you may want to consider switching your fans so that u have more exhaust than intake... this way you can have negative pressure inside the boxes and you could effectively use a carbon scrubber if you wanted to.. either way awesome setup

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room temps run at 65-75 i found that if the room temp gets higher than 78 temps inside get a little too hot but not too much
my buddy greenfirekilla actually made a modification to fit a carbon filter

daddygreenfingers said:

growman at wot rate did they grow? intresting wot ur doing will keep in tuch

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the ones in the pictures are just under 3 weeks
crazy shit man

AmAZING! I'm doing this current setup as we speak! Check my Journal out! I'll be adding my third rubbermaid tm morn. and I'll be receiving my 400 HPS next week.
This Forums got me on a roll! haha

I thought the only reason someone would use rubbermaid containers is for stealth growing?
You could have built a box out of wood that would be bigger than that..and cheaper.

Keep on growing though.